Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1887-10-06
w. c. II. U. DEPARTMENT.
EDITED ny THE woMAN's CHRIS
TIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.
For God, and Home, and Native
Land"

| Though your work be never mentioned,
Though your name may not appear,
Speak one word for Jesus only"
! And the Lord, Mt least, Will hear.
n Wesleyan Sunday school
teacher, speaking one day to hi,
scholars on the depravity of the
human heart, asked them if they
knew any one who was always
good; when one of the class, prompt.
ed by simple and child-like affection
instantly replied, "Yes, sir, know
my mother"
The child's innocent reply was Ger.
tainly beautiful tribute TO good
woman. The child is to be pited
whose mother does not inspire his
confidence. a young physician
in rehearsing to on aunt the scandal.
Gus reports of an old practitioner
who wished to injure his practice
concluded by saying, "Nohody
believed the stories because they
know my mother"
The mother of the Rev. T. L
Guyler has but recently died. We
Judge that he began early in life to
imbibe strong temperance senti-
ments. When her boy was ten
years of age, Mrs. Cuyler drew up
pledge of total abstinence which
they both signed. A few years later
when visiting friends in New Jersey
they said to her, awe are goin Q
tonight to new kind of temperance
meeting, one in which we are to be
pledged against everything that
intoxicates." "Why" said she
Theodore and l have belonged tc
that kind of temperance society
for more than two years"
Are our temperance lecturers get.
ting their eyes open at last' Georg {
w. Balm writes of the neglect OF
"this missionary field" referring tc
the colored race, which, involve, he
says, the country's veal or woe or
the drink question. He is beginning
to see that years of Christian work
must be done before party car
uproot the liquor traffic. He con.
cludes his letter from Tennessee
with the following truthful state.
mcnt:
This country cannot be saved
without the ballot of the colorcd
race, and this must come by educa.
ton. While | am heart and soul
for political, party prohibition | feel
this educational work must go hand
i'll hand with political efforts to
secure the end.
Excuse this long private letter
but | am exercised over the colored
race, and cannot censure the race
until we have done by them in
proportion as we have done by the
heathen.'
1t is time for the leaders in this
movement to be exercised over the
colored race"
n committee on the "Colored
Population" at a missippi Baptist
Conventin reported the following
items: "Itis the opinion of your
committee that in their elevation
and improvement lies largely the
solution of the temperance question
and many other perplcxing ques-
tons of the day"
The question often recurs to us:
"Why do the colorcd people need
so little teaching and the white PEG
pie so much?"
a lady of the w. c. T. u. from
Pennsylvania, told us Of two weeks
series of temperance meetings. in her
town, and as though it were a matter
for praise she said: "The colored
people had one whole meeting all
for themselves" They couldn't
take them in with the white people,
She added, because the German and
Irish element there was so strong.
Are our own blood relation to be
sacrificed to German and Irish emf.
grantsI Just as long as this state of
things exists just so long will the
liquor traffic and anarchy prevail in
our land. Our heart aches over the
years of time that arc being wasted
by our leaders in the w. &. T.. u.
all because they are not willing to
work according to the PATTERN
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